『Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology』

Gary Webster and Brian Goodwin

(1996年刊行,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xiv+287pp., ISBN:052135451X [hbk])

【目次】

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii



Part I : The Problem of Form(Pp.1-125 by Gerry Webster)

 1. Introduction: Forms and Kinds 3

 2. The Old Dialectic: Empirical Classification and Darwinian Theory 13

 3. The Ontological Status of Taxa: Material Practice 40

 4. The Ontological Status of Taxa: Theoretical Practice 62

 5. Rational Systematics and Morphogenetic Theory: A New Dialectic? 101



Part II : Fields and Forms(Pp.127-256: by Brian Goodwin)

 6. Putting the Organism Together Again 131

 7. Segments, Symmetries and Epigenetic Maps 154

 8. The Unitary Morphogenetic Field 193

 9. A Generative Biology 231



References 257

Index 273